{"id":101635,"date":"2020-01-30T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T01:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/this-tiny-glass-bead-has-been-quantum-chilled-to-near-absolute-zero"},"modified":"2020-01-30T17:04:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T01:04:51","slug":"this-tiny-glass-bead-has-been-quantum-chilled-to-near-absolute-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/this-tiny-glass-bead-has-been-quantum-chilled-to-near-absolute-zero","title":{"rendered":"This tiny glass bead has been quantum chilled to near absolute zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-tiny-glass-bead-has-been-quantum-chilled-to-near-absolute-zero3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new method for manipulating the quantum state of particles could one day allow us to observe an object in two places at once. The technique has been used to chill a tiny glass bead into its coldest possible quantum state.<\/p>\n<p>Once you get down to extremely small scales, heat and motion are interchangeable: the more a particle is moving, the hotter it is. So to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2188853-ultracold-atoms-can-make-strange-and-beautiful-quantum-fireworks\/\">cool down a small particle<\/a>, you have to stop it moving. Because the rules of quantum mechanics mean you can never know exactly how fast a particle is moving, there is a limit to how cold a particle can get. When a particle is at that limit, we call it the particle\u2019s ground state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new method for manipulating the quantum state of particles could one day allow us to observe an object in two places at once. The technique has been used to chill a tiny glass bead into its coldest possible quantum state. Once you get down to extremely small scales, heat and motion are interchangeable: the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}